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A Blue State Digital founding partner, Jascha brings more than a decade's experience in software development in the corporate, nonprofit, and political spheres to his role as Blue State Digital's Chief Technology Officer. He manages the company's technology staff and operations out of Blue State Digital's technology center near downtown Boston, including the infrastructure, maintenance and enhancement of the Blue State Digital Online Tools, and technology client services.

For Gov. Howard Dean's groundbreaking 2004 presidential campaign, Jascha led the technology team responsible for scaling, securing, and maintaining a high-visibility, high-traffic Web site, which received praise from both the political and tech communities for its usability, reliability, and depth of functionality.

• Session: Keynote Address - Lessons from the Obama Online Campaign
• Date & Time/Location: 3-27-09, 12:45pm-1:45pm, Salon D

Andy Hunt is a programmer turned consultant, author and publisher. He authored the best-selling book The Pragmatic Programmer and six others, was one of the 17 founders of the Agile Alliance, and co-founded the Pragmatic Bookshelf, publishing award-winning and critically acclaimed books for software developers.

• Session: Keynote Address - Refactoring Your Wetware
• Date & Time/Location: 3-27-09, 8:45am-9:45am, Salon A
• Session: Pragmatic Agility
• Date & Time/Location: 3-27-09, 3:00pm-4:00pm, Salon D

Michael Tiemann is a true open source software pioneer. He made his first major open source contribution more than two decades ago by writing the GNU C++ compiler, the first native-code C++ compiler and debugger. His early work led to the creation of leading open source technologies and the first open source business model.

Michael Tiemann received a BS in Computer Science Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania's Moore School of Engineering in 1987. In 1989, Tiemann's technical expertise and entrepreneurial spirit led him to co-found Cygnus Solutions, the first company to provide commercial support for open source software. During his ten years at Cygnus, Tiemann contributed in a number of roles from President to hacker, helping lead the company from fledgling start-up to an admired open source leader.

Tiemann serves on a number of boards, including the Open Source Initiative and the GNOME Foundation. Tiemann also provides financial support to organizations that further the goals of software and programmer freedom, including the Free Software Foundation and the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

• Session: Keynote Address - Exonovation - Leveraging Innovation from the Edge
• Date & Time/Location: 3-26-09, 8:45am-9:45am, Salon A
• Session: Panel Discussion: Through the Thicket: A Review of Open Source Licensing Options and Issues
• Date & Time/Location: 3-26-09, 10:15am-11:15am, Salon D

Rob Adams is a venture industry executive with more than 17 years of broad operational and financial experience; including business strategy development and implementation, financial analysis and modeling, management development, and business positioning. He is a founding partner of NextStage Capital, L.P., a mid-Atlantic seed and early stage venture capital fund.

Prior to joining his partners at NextStage, Rob served six years as Principal and Vice President of Safeguard Scientifics. There, he was instrumental in the development of numerous technology companies, from early stage through public entity. As a part of that role, he was chartered with sourcing, structuring, and negotiating greater than $100 million in investments for Safeguard's portfolio and $380 million in mergers, acquisitions and exits. He designed and executed venture investment strategies for portfolio companies including PacWest Telecomm ($100 million IPO), Extant ($200 million acquisition by Dynegy), and ThinAirApps ($20 million acquisition by Palm).

• Session: Panel Discussion: Prepare for Success - Addressing (and Conquering) the New Economic Realities Facing Emerging Technology and Life Science Businesses
• Date & Time/Location: 3-26-09, 1:30pm-3:00pm, Salon D

Dan Allen is a member of the Seam project team at JBoss, a division of Red Hat, and author of Seam in Action. Dan is known for his passionate work and his thorough writing style. He has over eight years of development experience using Java EE technologies (Seam, JSF/Facelets, EJB3, Hibernate, Spring, Struts) and the plethora of frameworks and technologies that support web application development, including JUnit, TestNG, Selenium, JavaScript, CSS, Maven 2, Ant, Groovy, and the list wears on.

Quickly after graduating from college, Dan became captivated by the world of free and open source software, which is how he got his start in software development. He eventually discovered Linux and the Java EE platform to be the ideal blend on which to build his professional career. In his search for a robust Web framework, Dan happened upon Seam, which was quickly granted this most coveted spot in his development toolbox. Dan is also a dedicated open source and Linux advocate and writes about his experiences regularly. You can keep up with his discoveries by reading his blog at http://mojavelinux.com or follow him on twitter at http://twitter.com/mojavelinux.

• Session: Maturing Your Application's Security with Seam Security
• Date & Time/Location: 3-27-09, 11:30am-12:30pm, Salon C

Scott Bain is a 30+-year veteran in computer technology, with a background in development, engineering, and design. He has also designed, delivered, and managed training programs for certification and end-user skills, both in traditional classrooms and via distance learning. Scott teaches courses and consults on Agile Analysis and Design Patterns, Advanced Software Design, and Sustainable Test-Driven Development. Scott is a frequent speaker at developer conferences such as JavaOne and SDWest.

• Session: Design in Software
• Date & Time/Location: 3-26-09, 1:30pm-2:30pm, Salon A

Scott is a co-founder at Bluenog and leads their Sales and Marketing efforts. Scott is an industry veteran with 20 years experience in the software industry, at both established companies and startups. Scott has held Senior Sales, Product Management and Senior Management roles at companies such as BEA Systems, Atomica, eB2B Commerce, Novera Software, IBM and AT&T Bell Laboratories. Scott holds a Masters Degree in Computer Science from Columbia University.

• Session: Panel Discussion: Through the Thicket: A Review of Open Source Licensing Options and Issues
• Date & Time/Location: 3-26-09, 10:15am-11:15am, Salon D

Rod is an Enterprise Architect at Chariot Solutions focusing on SOA, Java, Open Source and lightweight frameworks.

• Session: Bus in the Clouds
• Date & Time/Location: 3-27-09, 3:00pm-4:00pm, Salon E

David A. Black founded Ruby Power and Light, LLC in 2006 when he was making a transition from full-time university teaching to Ruby/Rails training and consulting. David had started programming in Ruby in 2000; had first written about Ruby for publication in 2001; and started using Rails in the Fall of 2004.

David is also one of the directors of Ruby Central, Inc., a non-profit corporation devoted to supporting and promoting Ruby-related events and projects.

• Session: Probative Programming: Toward the Physical Unification of Code and Tests
• Date & Time/Location: 3-27-09, 1:45pm-2:45pm, Salon B

As Senior Director, Enterprise Solutions Group, De'Porres leads an extended organization of (70) business and technology professionals for Microsoft Mid-Atlantic. Microsoft Mid-Atlantic is a $550 million business unit that helps large enterprises evaluate and implement Microsoft-based technology solutions. The mission of his organization is to help Microsoft's customers deliver superior results through innovative, cost-effective use of technology.

De'Porres joined Microsoft in 1997 as a Senior Consultant working in Microsoft's Services Division where he led several high-profile e-business projects. Since that time, he has held several leadership positions in both Microsoft headquarters and Microsoft field operations. This includes working in Microsoft's product development group, where he was a Group Program Manager responsible for designing and shipping enterprise software solutions to Microsoft customers worldwide. De'Porres is also a noted speaker having represented Microsoft at major industry conferences in the U.S. and abroad.

• Session: A Hybrid Approach To Cloud Computing Delivers Flexibility and Cost Savings
• Date & Time/Location: 3-26-09, 11:30am-12:30pm, Salon D

Jeff Brown works with Engineering and Professional Services with SpringSource, is a member of the core Groovy and Grails development teams and is a co-author of The Definitive Guide To Grails Second Edition. For over 10 years Jeff has been involved in designing and building object oriented systems.

Jeff has done development and mentoring work for industries including Aerospace, Financial and Medical. Areas of expertise include Java, agile web development with Groovy and Grails, distributed computing, object database systems, object oriented analysis and design and agile development. Through his entire career Jeff has always been a hands-on technologist actively involved in software development, training, and mentoring. He is also an international public speaker, having been featured regularly on the No Fluff Just Stuff Software Symposium tour for a number of years.

• Session: Grails in Practice
• Date & Time/Location: 3-26-09, 2:45pm-3:45pm, Salon C

Ed Burnette is a software industry veteran with more than 25 years of experience as a programmer, author, and speaker. His development credits include everything from commercial video games to high-performance grid computing systems. Ed is a founding member and senior researcher at the SAS Advanced Computing Lab.

Ed has authored numerous technical articles and books, including Google Web Toolkit: Taking the Pain out of Ajax and Eclipse IDE Pocket Guide. He writes the Dev Connection blog for ZDNet, and is the creator of Planet Android.

In his copious spare time, you can often find him playing video games with his two sons at their home in central North Carolina.

• Session: Introduction to Android Development
• Date & Time/Location: 3-26-09 11:30am-12:30pm, Salon C

With over 22 years of professional experience in software/systems engineering and architecture, Steve has extensive experience in the areas of e-commerce, performance/scalability tuning, capacity planning, technical writing, project management, security, and quality assurance.

• Session: From Applications to Services: A Mid-Term State of the Union at GSI
• Date & Time/Location: 3-27-09, 10:15am-11:15am, Salon E

David Chelimsky is the lead developer of RSpec and a leader in the discussion of Behaviour Driven Development in the Ruby space.

Through April of 2007, David worked as a consultant with Object Mentor, Inc, teaching courses and providing one on one mentoring in OO Design, Test Driven Development and Refactoring.

David now develops dynamic (in function and language!) web applications at Articulated Man, Inc, a Chicago-based web design and application consultancy.

• Session: Executable Documentation: Exploring the Spec in RSpec
• Date & Time/Location: 3-26-09, 4:00pm-5:00pm, Salon A

Mike Culver joined the Developer Relations Group of Amazon Web Services in 2006. He brings with him fifteen years of technology leadership experience, including at companies such as Microsoft. In addition Mike has a strong background running an IT organization, with over a decade of experience in the Electrical Wholesale Distribution industry. As a Web Services Evangelist at Amazon, he helps developers take advantage of disruptive technologies that are going to change the way we think about computer applications, and the way that businesses compete.

• Session: The Forecast is Clearly Cloudy
• Date & Time/Location: 3-27-09, 10:15am-11:15am, Salon D
• Session: Use Crowdsourcing to Manage Your Assets
• Date & Time/Location: 3-26-09, 4:00pm-5:00pm, Salon E

Mr. Diephouse is a software architect at MuleSource, the company behind the open source Mule integration framework. Here he is focused on building and helping others build open source web services/SOA solutions such as Mule Galaxy, an open source Governance platform. He is a co-founder of the web services framework Apache CXF, a founder of several other projects including XFire, SXC, and Jettison, and participates in several others whenever possible.

• Session: Lightweight RESTful integration Mule
• Date & Time/Location: 3-26-09, 2:45pm-3:45pm, Salon E

Bill Dudney is a software developer and entrepreneur currently building software for the Mac. Bill started his computing career on a NeXT cube with a magneto-optical drive running NeXTStep 0.9. Over the years, Bill migrated into the Java world, where he worked for years on building cool enterprise software. But he never forgot his roots and how much fun it was to write software that did cool things for normal people. Bill is back to AppKit to stay. You can follow him on his blog at bill.dudney.net/roller/objc.

• Session: Introduction to iPhone Development
• Date & Time/Location: 3-26-09, 10:15am-11:15am, Salon C

Robert Fesnak is the Managing Partner of Fesnak and Associates, LLP. Bob has developed an extensive background in audit, accounting, tax, valuation and financial consulting for many public and middle market companies. He has over twenty years of experience with concentration in the manufacturing, high-tech, service, real estate, wholesale, health care, leasing and broker-dealer industries. His experience included assisting clients in the registration of various debt and equity securities with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) including various SEC filings.

• Session: Panel Discussion: Prepare for Success - Addressing (and Conquering) the New Economic Realities Facing Emerging Technology and Life Science Businesses
• Date & Time/Location: 3-26-09, 1:30pm-3:00pm, Salon D

Mark Fisher is a Senior Software Engineer with SpringSource and lead of the Spring Integration project. As a core developer for the Spring Framework, he played a central role in developing the annotation-based configuration features of Spring 2.5. He has also provided consulting and training services for clients across numerous industries throughout North America. Mark speaks frequently on the No Fluff Just Stuff Software Symposium tour, at SpringOne in Europe and America, and has presented at several Java User Groups.

• Session: Getting Started with Spring Integration
• Date & Time/Location: 3-26-09, 10:15am-11:15am, Salon E

Scott has worked professionally in the information technology sector for more than twenty two years. One of the original founders of Portico Systems, he continues to have hands-on involvement with the company's Java-based platform. Previously he worked as an independent consultant specializing in UNIX/Windows C/C++ programming, and networking.

He has a BS in Environmental Biology from Eastern University in St. David's PA, and is an avid birder.

• Session: Clojure and The Robot Apocalypse: Needfuls for Newbies
• Date & Time/Location: 3-27-09, 1:45pm-2:45pm, Salon C

Brian Gentile is an open source community advocate with c-suite experience. His rich history in building developer communities at Apple and Sun Microsystems has resulted in his firm belief that open source collaboration is the essential ingredient for today's software economy.

A self-proclaimed "energetic believer" in the power of open source, he is committed to restoring quality and invigorating innovation across the software community. This personal commitment is evident in his dedication to the CEO post at Jaspersoft where he is focused on facilitating collaboration among the business intelligence (BI) ecosystem to deliver new levels of functionality, value and support to customers who are tired of heavyweight solutions from tired incumbents.

Brian has shared his knowledge on developing communities that support some of the best software in the world at events such as the Apple Worldwide Developer Conference, Java One, Brio's Worldwide Customer Conference, Informatica's Woldwide Customer Conference, and the 2007 Software Development Expo.

• Session: Consumerization of IT: Meeting the Expectations of a New Enterprise Worker
• Date & Time/Location: 3-26-09, 3:15pm-4:15pm, Salon D

Anthony currently has responsibility for the Open Source business within Unisys providing global leadership in delivering market-leading solutions for this billion dollar extremely high-growth business. He developed the Open Source vision and strategy for Unisys and managed the development of the solution portfolio and all go-to-market execution plans. He created executive-level partnerships and developed strong relationships with the CEOs and senior management of several open source companies.

Anthony has presented keynotes at numerous worldwide industry events around the business benefits of open source and open standards, and has established Unisys as "Open Source's biggest services gun", as noted by InfoWorld. He also authors an executive's blog on open source, which has been syndicated by multiple news agencies. Anthony is a member of the CIO Institute for the Eastern Technology Council as well as a member of the Editorial Advisory Board for the Technology Times bi-monthly publication, which serves nearly 200,000 business leaders in the Delaware Valley/Philadelphia region.

• Session: Panel Discussion: Through the Thicket: A Review of Open Source Licensing Options and Issues
• Date & Time/Location: 3-26-09, 10:15am-11:15am, Salon D

Joe Gregorio is a Developer Advocate at Google, a member of the AtomPub Working Group and editor of the Atom Publishing Protocol. He has a deep interest in web technologies, writing "The RESTFul Web" column for the online O'Reilly publication XML.com, writing the first desktop aggregator written in C#, and publishing various Python modules to help in putting together RESTful web services.

• Session: Under the Covers of the App Engine Datastore
• Date & Time/Location: 3-26-09, 1:30pm-2:30pm, Salon C

Corey Haines is currently a freelance developer and journeyman, traveling around to pair-program with other developers. He is an active member in the software craftsmanship movement, focusing his attention on post-apprenticeship activities. He started programming in the early 80's by cheating at video games (they weren't compiled back then) and fell in love with development as a teenager. He currently specializes in Ruby, but will pair in just about any language you want.

Corey can be reached via his website: www.coreyhaines.com

• Session: "On The Road" - The Pair-Programming, Journeyman Tour
• Date & Time/Location: 3-26-09, 2:45pm-3:45pm, Salon A

Robert Hanson is the Applications Development Manager for Quality Technology Services a company providing hosting, managed services, and application development. There he plays a dual role of lead developer and architect, defining the processes that allow for the development of quality web applications. Robert is a veteran programmer and web developer, cutting his teeth on Perl and ASP in the mid 90's before moving on to Java.

Robert is passionate about programming and has developed open-source software for both the Perl and Java communities. Some of his work related to the Google Web Toolkit includes the open-source GWT Widget Library, GWTSandbox.com, and in 2007 Robert co-authored the book GWT in Action with Adam Tacy.

Robert provides tutorials and random thoughts about the craft on his blog found at roberthanson.blogspot.com, can be found hacking his Pulse pen at his latest open-source venture Penlets.com, and you can visit his other projects at his home page found at home on the web, roberthanson.org.

• Session: Google Web Toolkit: An Introduction for Developers
• Date & Time/Location: 3-27-09, 10:15am-11:15am, Salon C

Michael is the Co-Chair of Fox Rothschild's Corporate Department, Office Managing Partner of the firm's Chester County (PA) Office and a member of the firm's Executive Committee. Michael concentrates his practice on representing regional, national and international early and middle stage technology and life sciences companies in private financing, mergers, acquisitions, licensing, taxation and related issues. Michael also advises many of this region's venture capital and private equity funds in connection with the acquisition, management and divestiture of portfolio companies.

• Session: Panel Discussion: Prepare for Success - Addressing (and Conquering) the New Economic Realities Facing Emerging Technology and Life Science Businesses
• Date & Time/Location: 3-26-09, 1:30pm-3:00pm, Salon D

Jane Hoffer most recently was the president and chief executive officer of Prescient Applied Intelligence (Nasdaq: PPID). She was responsible for directing the long-term vision of the company and its commitment to remaining a competitive force in a rapidly changing marketplace. Hoffer drove the strategic direction for Prescient’s comprehensive solutions that enabled retail trading partners to align planning and execution with changing market needs through improved demand visibility, collaboration and advanced commerce. In January 2009, Prescient was sold to Park City Group (Nasdaq: PCYG) and Hoffer has exited the business. She is currently working on the development of another start-up company.

• Session: Panel Discussion: Prepare for Success - Addressing (and Conquering) the New Economic Realities Facing Emerging Technology and Life Science Businesses
• Date & Time/Location: 3-26-09, 1:30pm-3:00pm, Salon D

Dan Kulp is a Software Fellow at Progress Software and a Member and VP at the Apache Software Foundation. He is most well-known for his active participation and leadership in the Apache CXF open source Web services project. At Progress he is responsible for the development of the FUSE Services Framework open source product, which is based on Apache CXF. Prior to working with FUSE, Dan worked at several start-ups including Watershed Technologies, Athena Design, and Sundial Systems.

• Session: Security Challenges and Web Services
• Date & Time/Location: 3-27-09, 1:45pm-2:45pm, Salon E

Chuck Lewis, VP of Information Management at TD Bank, has spent over 19 years in IT. In his current role, Mr. Lewis is responsible for leading development teams focused on business intelligence, data warehousing, and database solutions. Mr. Lewis has been instrumental in leading the vision and strategy efforts for enterprise-wide data warehousing solutions utilizing an SOA methodology. Prior to TD Bank (previously Commerce Bank), Mr. Lewis consulted at Deloitte implementing business intelligence and enterprise reporting solutions for mid-market and larger clients.

• Session: Panel Discussion: Through the Thicket: A Review of Open Source Licensing Options and Issues
• Date & Time/Location: 3-26-09, 10:15am-11:15am, Salon D

Brian Marick was a programmer, tester, and team lead in the 80's, a testing consultant in the 90's, and is an Agile consultant this decade. He was one of the authors of the Manifesto for Agile Software Development and is the author of three books The Craft of Software Testing, Everyday Scripting with Ruby, and RubyCocoa and a bunch of articles.

• Session: Exhibitionism in Software Development
• Date & Time/Location: 3-26-09, 11:30am-12:30pm, Salon A

Dianne Marsh is a specialist in providing coaching and project support in a variety of programming languages. Dianne?s expertise is scientific and technical programming, including manufacturing, genomics, decision support, and real-time processing on both Windows and UNIX operating systems.

• Session: Practical Scala
• Date & Time/Location: 3-26-09, 4:00pm-5:00pm, Salon B

Brian McCallister is a programmery kind of person who loves that folks are willing to pay him to write code. He works as an Architect and Engineering Manager at Ning, a platform for building your own social websites. Brian has worked variously as a programmer, technical writer, and systems administrator for over a decade on projects ranging from telecommunications GIS systems to loom control drivers. He is proud to be a Member of the Apache Software Foundation, and serves there as Vice President, Apache ActiveMQ.

• Session: GET/Resty
• Date & Time/Location: 3-27-09, 3:00pm-4:00pm, Salon B

Mr. McCaney has over 20 years experience in the medical industry, principally in diagnostics and medical devices. In 2005, he founded Nitric BioTherapeutics, Inc. and has been President & CEO since that time. Prior to joining Nitric Bio, he was Sr. VP of Business Development at Viasys Healthcare where he was responsible for M&A, technology assessment and, for a time, Group President of the OEM medical companies of Viasys. His previous experience was at several of the larger healthcare conglomerates, mostly in Sales and Marketing roles and was partly responsible for the spinoff of Viasys from Thermo Electron Corp. Mr. McCaney has a B.S. in Biochemistry and an M.S. Eq. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.

• Session: Panel Discussion: Prepare for Success - Addressing (and Conquering) the New Economic Realities Facing Emerging Technology and Life Science Businesses
• Date & Time/Location: 3-26-09, 1:30pm-3:00pm, Salon D

Debbie Moynihan is currently focused on managing and expanding the FUSE community, which was created to help users adopt and deploy Apache ServiceMix, Apache ActiveMQ, Apache Camel, and Apache CXF in enterprise environments. She is also responsible for marketing for the FUSE products, which are tested, certified open source products based on these popular Apache projects and are backed by world-class support and services. Debbie was previously Director of Open Source Programs for IONA Technologies, now a wholly owned subsidiary of Progress Software. Prior to IONA, Debbie was responsible for product line management of IBM's WebSphere Process Integration portfolio. She has a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering and an M.S. in Management both from MIT.

• Session: SOA and Open Source
• Date & Time/Location: 3-26-09, 4:15pm-5:15pm, Salon D

Anas Mughal is a lead RIA architect at Bluenog. He has architected and delivered multiple RIA solutions leveraging diverse technologies. Lately, he has been advising clients on how to incorporate RIA into portal frameworks. He could be contacted at anas.mughal@bluenog.com.

• Session: Ajaxifying Existing Web Applications
• Date & Time/Location: 3-27-09, 11:30am-12:30pm, Salon E

Aaron Mulder is the chief technical officer of Chariot Solutions, where he helps companies with their Java, Java EE, Rails, and Open Source architecture challenges. When not consulting, you can usually find him presenting at conferences and user groups, wrangling with JCP spec committees, working on his latest book, or hacking away at Apache Geronimo, ActiveMQ, OpenEJB, and many more. Along the way, he has contributed to many other projects including, JBoss and PostgreSQL.

• Session: Dead Simple Integration with Apache Camel
• Date & Time/Location: 3-26-09, 1:30pm-2:30pm, Salon E

Mr. Polisetty comes from an entrepreneur background having started and sold two successful Silicon Valley technology companies. His proven abilities in developing technology ideas into practically useful business solutions helped the efficient functioning of businesses, organizations, governments and common people internationally.

Having spent more than ten years in Silicon Valley, Mr. Polisetty transitioned to CSC, a $17 Billion IT services giant and moved to India heading the Office of Innovation in CSC India and helped CSC's Global clients profit through practical application of Innovation. He is currently the Director of Strategic Initiatives in North American Public Sector group of CSC creating next-generation set of offerings, working with strategic partners, identifying acquisition targets, and developing business solutions benefiting the federal, state and local markets in North America.

• Session: Realizing Lower TCO with Open Source - Management & Best Practices
• Date & Time/Location: 3-27-09, 11:30am-12:30pm, Salon D

Gregg Pollack lives in Orlando, Florida where he works as the CTO of RailsEnvy.com, directs the Orlando Ruby Users Group, organizes BarCampOrlando, and enjoys producing lots of media. He can be heard on the Rails Envy Podcast covering the latest news in the Ruby and Rails world, and seen teaching Ruby and Rails topics on EnvyCasts.

• Session: Innovation in Ruby
• Date & Time/Location: 3-26-09, 1:30pm-2:30pm, Salon B

Ken Pugh is a fellow consultant with Net Objectives. He consults, trains, mentors, and testifies on technology topics ranging from object-oriented design to Linux/Unix to the agile software development. He has written several programming books, including the 2006 Jolt Award winner, Prefactoring, and has served clients from London to Sydney. When not computing, he enjoys snowboarding, windsurfing, biking, and hiking the Appalachian Trail.

• Session: Acceptance Test Driven Development - Connecting Business and Technology
• Date & Time/Location: 3-26-09, 10:15am-11:15am, Salon A

Tom Purcell's 19-year IT journey has tracked the course of the industry from the glass house of the 80's, to the client-server of the 90's and on to the J2EE Enterprise applications of the new millennium. He has designed and developed applications on numerous platforms and has worked with Java technology extensively since he installed the first IBM mainframe JVM in 1997. Recently, he has helped engineer several successful J2EE applications in the accounting and travel industries. Tom leads the Delaware Valley BEA Users Group, has been published in Weblogic Developer's Journal and was a speaker at last year's JavaOne.

• Session: Bus in the Clouds
• Date & Time/Location: 3-27-09, 3:00pm-4:00pm, Salon E

Michael Redlich is a currently a Senior Research Technician at a petrochemical research organization in Clinton, New Jersey with extensive experience in developing custom web and scientific laboratory applications. Mike also has experience as a Technical Support Engineer for Ai-Logix, Inc. where he provided technical support and developed telephony applications for customers. He has been a member of the Amateur Computer Group of New Jersey (ACGNJ) since 1996, and currently serves on the ACGNJ Board of Directors as President. Mike has also been facilitating the monthly ACGNJ Java Users Group since 2001. His technical experience includes object oriented design and analysis, relational database design and development, computer security, C/C++, Java, and other programming/scripting languages. Mike has co-authored a number of articles with Barry Burd for Java Boutique. He has also conducted seminars at Emerging Technologies for the Enterprise, Trenton Computer Festival (TCF) since 1998, TCF Professional Conference since 2006, and other venues including Princeton Java Users Group, Capital District Java Developers Network, and New York Software Industry Association (NYSIA) Java Users Group. Mike serves as a Coordinator of a local ExxonMobil Science Ambassador program where he has conducted numerous science demonstrations and served as a science fair judge for various elementary schools in central New Jersey. Mike holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Rutgers University.

• Session: Getting Started with the Stripes Framework
• Date & Time/Location: 3-27-09, 3:00pm-4:00pm, Salon C

John Resig is a JavaScript Evangelist for the Mozilla Corporation and the author of the book Pro JavaScript Techniques. He's also the creator and lead developer of the jQuery JavaScript library.

Currently, John is located in Boston, MA. He's hard at work on his second book, Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja, due in bookstores Fall 2008.

• Session: How to Run a Successful Open Source Project: The jQuery success story
• Date & Time/Location: 3-26-09, 2:45pm-3:45pm, Salon B

Chris Richardson is a developer and architect with over 20 years of experience. He's the author of "POJOs in Action", which describes how to build enterprise Java applications with POJOs and lightweight frameworks. Chris runs a consulting and training company that specializes in helping companies build better software faster. He has been a technical leader at Insignia, BEA, and elsewhere and is a Java champion. Chris has a computer science degree from the University of Cambridge in England and lives in Oakland, CA.

Website and blog: www.chrisrichardson.net

• Session: Architecting Java applications for Amazon EC2
• Date & Time/Location: 3-26-09, 4:00pm-5:00pm, Salon C

With over 15 years of industry experience, Ken Rimple has played a key role architecting and developing a wide variety of solutions in various settings, including finance, business-to-business purchasing, telecommunications provisioning, and more. His technology expertise has focused in recent years on Java-based frameworks such as Spring, J2EE and Hibernate, and he has worked with workflow tools like BEA Weblogic Integration and Metastorm. He possesses a strong background in relational database development and design, and has architected databases and solutions using Oracle, Sybase, Microsoft SQL Server, PostgreSQL and MySQL.

• Session: An Introduction to Groovy
• Date & Time/Location: 3-27-09, 3:00pm-4:00pm, Salon D

Bob Schatz specializes in consulting and coaching organizational leaders in the practice of successfully using agile project management techniques to transform their organizations and improve the performance of their software development projects. He began his practice as a result of leading the agile transition at Primavera and helping many other companies do the same.

• Session: Legally Agile
• Date & Time/Location: 3-27-09, 10:15am-11:15am, Salon A

Jason Seifer is a web developer and 1/2 of RailsEnvy.com. He is a frequent speaker at the Orlando Ruby Users Group and enjoys long walks on the beach, scotch, and poetry. His programming interests include ruby, rails, javascript, full text search, and objective c.

• Session: Innovation in Ruby
• Date & Time/Location: 3-26-09, 1:30pm-2:30pm, Salon B

Nick Sieger is a staff engineer at Sun Microsystems where he has been working on a team building Project Kenai, a large JRuby on Rails application. He is a member of the JRuby core team, leading the effort to improve Rails deployment on the Java Virtual Machine. He created and co-maintains the JDBC adapter for ActiveRecord that JRuby on Rails uses for database connectivity, as well as the Warbler tool and JRuby-Rack library for dealing with Java application server deployment. He maintains a blog on Ruby and JRuby-related topics at blog.nicksieger.com.

• Session: JRuby: Agile Glue for the Enterprise
• Date & Time/Location: 3-27-09, 11:30am-12:30pm, Salon B

Jeff Snellenburg has over fifteen years of entrepreneurial, consulting and financial experience. His broad skill set and business savvy allow him to immerse himself in different opportunities and challenges. Jeff currently consults with select start-up, emerging and later stage companies providing financial and operational management expertise including funding strategies, due diligence, project analysis, and other business related services.

In addition, Jeff spends a large amount of time in the angel community. He is the Chairman of the PA Angel Network, which supports the angle groups and angel community in Pennsylvania. He is also an active member of Delaware Crossing Investors Group and the Private Investors Forum, where he is involved in the screening and judging process for the annual Angel Venture Fair. Jeff also advises and/or sits on a number of for-profit and non-for-profit board of directors in the area.

• Session: Panel Discussion: Prepare for Success - Addressing (and Conquering) the New Economic Realities Facing Emerging Technology and Life Science Businesses
• Date & Time/Location: 3-26-09, 1:30pm-3:00pm, Salon D

Rossen is a Senior Consultant at SpringSource providing training and consulting services for Spring portfolio products. Rossen has a diverse background in enterprise application development. He acquired his architectural vision and expertise while consulting for top-tier investment banks, Fortune 500 companies, and brand name e-commerce web sites. He has developed applications in sometimes very complex domains.

• Session: Spring Web Update
• Date & Time/Location: 3-26-09, 11:30am-12:30pm, Salon E
• Session: Spring & Flex Integration
• Date & Time/Location: 3-27-09, 3:00pm-4:00pm, Salon A

Jeremy J. Sydik is Director of Research Technology Development at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's Center for Instructional Innovation and Co-Principal Investigator on the Building Accepting Campus Communities project. With a background in computer science and cognitive psychology, he has over ten years of experience in developing high-quality (accessible!) user interfaces to improve learning environments.

• Session: Beginning to Think Accessibly
• Date & Time/Location: 3-26-09, 11:30am-12:30pm, Salon B

Francis "Frank" X. Taney, Jr. is a shareholder with the Philadelphia office of the law firm of Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC, and is a member of the firm's Antitrust and Trade Regulation Group, the Construction Industry Practice Group, the Real Estate and Land Use Planning Litigation Group, the IP Litigation Group and the White-Collar Defense and Investigations Group. Frank also chairs the Information Technology Litigation Practice Group and is a member of the Technology Transactions Group.

Frank's practice focuses on complex commercial litigation in a variety of substantive areas. He has experience in construction, antitrust, copyright, trade secret and information technology ("IT") litigation, as well as disputes involving eminent domain and government contracts. He has successfully tried many arbitrations and bench and jury trials to award or verdict as lead trial attorney, and has other trial and arbitration experience.

• Session: Panel Discussion: Through the Thicket: A Review of Open Source Licensing Options and Issues
• Date & Time/Location: 3-26-09, 10:15am-11:15am, Salon D

Jason van Zyl is the Founder and CTO of Sonatype, the leader in Java development infrastructure whose customers include Intuit, eBay, Qualcomm and eTrade, and he has over 10 years of experience in open source and proprietary enterprise software development. Prior to Sonatype, Jason was the founder Periapt, Inc., a company that provided software infrastructure development services to Fortune 500 companies such as Toyota Corp., Bank of America, and Coca-Cola Co. Before Periapt, he worked as a Technology Architect at Compusense, a world leader in sensory analysis and data research.

An open source enthusiast, Jason is one of the founders of the Apache Maven project, and founder the Plexus IoC framework, and the Apache Velocity project. Jason currently serves as Chair of the Apache Maven Project Management Committee. He has been involved with the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) for seven years, helped to found Codehaus, a well respected incubation facility for open source community projects, and is a frequent speaker at many major software conferences, including JavaOne, EclipseCon, EmergingTech, and ApacheCon.

• Session: Tycho: The future of Maven & OSGi
• Date & Time/Location: 3-26-09, 10:15am-11:15am, Salon B

Michael is a Certified Scrum Trainer and Practitioner currently based in Richmond, Virginia. He is available worldwide to teach both private and public classes. In addition to mentoring and coaching agile teams on a regular basis, Michael speaks at conferences and maintains a website and blog with free comic strips located at www.implementingscrum.com. He has been in the IT industry for the past nineteen years. He is co-author of a book on the Enterprise Unified Process (2005) which addresses working with enterprise teams across an organization.

• Session: Agile Round Table - Scrum in the Real World
• Date & Time/Location: 3-27-09, 1:45pm-2:45pm, Salon F

James Ward is a Technical Evangelist for Flex at Adobe and Adobe's JCP representative to JSR 286, 299, and 301. Much like his love for climbing mountains he enjoys programming because it provides endless new discoveries, elegant workarounds, summits and valleys. His adventures in climbing have taken him many places. Likewise, technology has brought him many adventures, including: Pascal and Assembly back in the early 90's; Perl, HTML, and JavaScript in the mid 90's; then Java and many of it's frameworks beginning in the late 90's. Today he primarily uses Flex to build beautiful front-ends for Java based back-ends. Prior to Adobe, James built a rich marketing and customer service portal for Pillar Data Systems.

• Session: Architecting Flex RIAs
• Date & Time/Location: 3-27-09, 1:45pm-2:45pm, Salon A

Jim York specializes in helping organizations radically reduce time to value. Lean and Agile thinking underpin the transformative practices that Jim teaches executive, management, and delivery teams. For more than 20 years as a management and IT consultant, he has led, mentored, and coached individuals, teams, and organizations in the implementation of Lean and Agile concepts. In addition to conducting public and on-site workshops, Jim blends his experience in Scrum, Agile Project Management, Lean Software Development, Extreme Program-ming, and traditional project management to deliver customized "just-in-time" train-ing to teams. As a Certified Scrum Trainer and member of the Scrum Alliance, Jim actively contributes to the advancement of the Scrum methodology. web.mac.com/jim.york/FoxHedge/welcome.html

• Session: Diets Don't Work - Getting Sustainable Results with Scrum
• Date & Time/Location: 3-27-09, 11:30am-12:30pm, Salon A

Ezra is known as a contributor in the Rails community, especially regarding deployment. Ezra took to Rails in 2004 and joined Engine Yard in mid-2006. Ezra published a complete Rails deployment book through The Pragmatic Programmers in early 2007.

Ezra Zygmuntowicz and Engine Yard recently secured $15 million in funding to help the company cement its position as a leading Ruby and Rails in the cloud provider.

• Session: Rube Goldberg Contraptions: Building Scalable Decoupled Web Apps and Infrastructure with Ruby
• Date & Time/Location: 3-27-09, 10:15am-11:15am, Salon B